Laura Esquivel author of Like Water for Chocolate will give a FREE lecture on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 inside the Mountain View College Performance Hall at 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. and 7 - 8:20 p.m. There will be a Reception and Book Signing at 8:30 p.m.  This event made possible with partial support from the DCCCD Foundation, Title V, and the Mountain View College Office of Student Life.
 
Laura Esquivel was born in Mexico City in 1950. She began her career as a screen-writer, gaining international acclaim and winning several awards. The publication of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate in 1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade and has been translated into thirty-three languages. In the United States alone it sold more than two million copies and remained on the best-seller list for over a year. The film based on the novel, with a script written by Esquivel herself, won several prizes and was also a tremendous hit at the box-office, and an especially notable success in the U.S.
Her following novels, La Ley del Amor, Tan Veloz Como el Deseo and  Malinche, had similar success amongst critics and the public alike and have also been widely translated.
 
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